Friday, May 17, 2013
TURNERS FALLS — Manufacturers’ effort to secure $500,000 for new metal-working machines at Franklin County Technical School — to help train 21st century metal workers for local industries desperate for such workers — won another victory Wednesday: a $250,000 proposed allocation from the state’s Senate Ways and Means …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Author to speak at Boswell’s Sunday at 4 SHELBURNE FALLS — Nationally acclaimed novelist Matthew Dicks will be speaking about and reading from his three novels at Boswell’s Books at 10 Bridge St. in Shelburne Falls at 4 p.m. on Sunday. “Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend” was recently …
Friday, May 17, 2013
TURNERS FALLS — Programs that allow poor elders to receive care in their own households, instead of turning to nursing homes, will see increases in funding next year — a much needed step in the right direction, said officials that help administer elder services. “The last four years …
Friday, May 17, 2013
SHELBURNE FALLS — The Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association’s “citizen of the year” award is named for the late businessman Marvin J. Shippee, whom Realtor Carol Bolduc described as a quiet, unassuming “man behind the curtain” in …
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
SHELBURNE FALLS — A Warner Bros. film production crew has set up a Bridge Street office — yet one more sign that filming scenes for “The Judge,” a feature film starring Robert Downey Jr. is increasingly likely. Peter Novak of Warner Bros. introduced himself to Shelburne Selectmen Monday …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Need I remind you, Mr. Blagg, after your editorial putting forth the idea that we should learn to accept tighter security for our own safety, of what one of our founding fathers had to say about it? “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Picture yourself swimming under murky water, unable to see your own hand in front of your face. The only way you can find your way through the depths is by relying on a signal rope held in your …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
COLRAIN — Annual town meeting voters will be asked to buy a pumper truck for the Fire Department, a dump truck body for the Highway Department and to spend $70,000 from old Community Development Block Grant loan repayments to cover demolition costs of town-owned buildings. The meeting begins …
Friday, May 3, 2013
The Pioneer Valley Symphony, the 74-year-old community symphony and orchestra based in Greenfield, will be honored next week as one of the area’s “outstanding organizations.” The symphony will be one of four recipients honored at New England Public Radio’s 5th annual Arts and Humanities Gala on Tuesday night …
Friday, May 3, 2013
ASHFIELD Annual town meeting/election: Today 10 a.m. in Town Hall. Board of Assessors: Monday 6 p.m. in Town Hall. Conservation Commission: Wednesday 7:30 p.m. in Town Hall. BERNARDSTON Planning Board: Monday 6:30 p.m. in Antonio’s Pizza. Cultural Council: Monday 6:30 p.m. in Town Hall. Agricultural Commission: Tuesday 7:30 …